Год выпуска: 2011 Автор: Jahanzeb Anwer,Nor Hisham Bin Hamid and Vijanth Sagayan Asirvadam Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 88 ISBN: 9783844332636
Описание
As the MOSFET dimensions scale down to nanoscale level, the reliability of circuits based on these devices decreases. Therefore, a mechanism has to be devised that can make the nanoscale systems perform reliably using unreliable circuit components. The solution is fault-tolerant circuit design. Markov Random Field (MRF) is an effective approach that achieves fault-tolerance in integrated circuit design. The previous research on this technique suffers from limitations at the design, simulation and implementation levels. As improvements, the MRF fault-tolerance rules have been validated for a practical circuit example. The simulation framework is extended from thermal to a combination of thermal and random telegraph signal noise sources to provide a more rigorous noise environment for the simulation of nanoscale circuits. Moreover, an architecture-level improvement has been proposed in the design of previous MRF gates. The re-designed MRF is termed as Improved-MRF. By...
